Email Author Dave McElfresh

1993 Stories by Dave McElfresh

• TUNES OF '93 IN TEN EASY STEPS SIR CHARLES, BARRY GOLDWATER AND DAVE FROM CIRCLE K WEIGH IN WITH THEIR FAVES

  published December 29, 1993

  Once again, we take a look at what a few local humans liked and didn't like in the music world this year. From fabulous celebrities such as... More >>

• BOXING YOUR EARS

  published December 15, 1993

  Good things come in small packages, as the saying goes, but at Christmastime, big packages look a whole lot better under a tree than little ones... More >>

• UNCLE JAM'S ARMY

  published October 27, 1993

  It's hard to believe that in 1906, the term "funk" referred to sexual body odors, and only some 50 years later to a music that sounded just as... More >>

• PHI BETA SAXPRECOCIOUS JAZZMAN JOSHUA REDMAN TRADED HIS BEANIE FOR A BEAT

  published October 20, 1993

  "I know what I'm striving for, and it's never to re-create music from the past," says saxophone prodigy Joshua Redman. "It's not a goal of mine to... More >>

• CHARLIE'S ANGELINSPIRED BY SAX LEGEND PARKER, SONNY ROLLINS FINDS PEACE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE-WHETHER HE'S PLAYING IN IT OR NOT

  published September 15, 1993

  There's an agonizing scene in Saxophone Colossus, the 1986 documentary film about jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. The tenor man is playing an... More >>

• PHANTOM RHYTHMSHE'S ONE OF THE BUSIEST DRUMMERS IN JAZZ, BUT VALLEY NATIVE LEWIS NASH IS A STRANGER IN TOWN

  published August 18, 1993

  Every city loves its homegrown musical heroes. Here in the Valley, alternative bands Meat Puppets and, lately, Gin Blossoms have scored huge... More >>

• JAZZSCAM

  published June 30, 1993

  You're a quiz-show contestant asked to define the word "jazz." Uh-oh. Is it the old-timey, street-marching, New Orleans music of Louis... More >>

• REFUSE FROM RIOALTHOUGH IT'S CURRENTLY THE WORLD MUSIC OF CHOICE, NOT ALL BRAZILIAN JAZZ IS CALIENTE

  published June 9, 1993

  The young female clerks of Gabriella's, Rio de Janeiro's most famous chain of open-air record markets, dance in the store aisles to both American... More >>

• MINGUS AMONG US

  published April 21, 1993

  Arizona's ties with the world of jazz are flimsy. Trumpeter Art Farmer was raised in Phoenix, and sax giant Charlie Parker probably spent the... More >>

• THE BIRTH OF SHHWINGTWO NEW BOXED SETS PROVE THAT SWING PUT SEX ON THE DANCE FLOOR

  published March 31, 1993

  If you think that sex and music began with the cock-in-a-sock antics of the Red Hot Chili Peppers or the funkin' rhythms of the earthiest hip-hop... More >>

• DESERT-COOKED SOUNDS

  published March 24, 1993

  One Foot in the Grave Lookin' Good! Who's Your Embalmer? (Triple X) Move over, California, Arizona now has the dubious distinction of... More >>

• STREET-CORNER SERENADEAFTER THREE CONVINCING DECADES, THE PERSUASIONS ARE STILL VOICING THEIR OPINIONS-A CAPPELLA

  published January 20, 1993

  You may think your city is glutted with local talent, but vocalist Jerry Lawson of a cappella group the Persuasions remembers when live music was... More >>